She has no judicial experience. She practiced law privately for just three years. And her only publicly-stated policy position has been in favor of gay rights.

Her name is Elena Kagan, and she is President Barack Obama's pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

This is terrorism in America.

For the second time in less than a week, several blocks of Times Square in New York City were shut down due to a terror scare Friday afternoon. Police ordered the brief evacuation so they could investigate a suspicious-looking cooler.

Police initially x-rayed the cooler, but brought in a suited bomb squad member after its results were inconclusive. The small, green cooler turned out to contain nothing more than water bottles.

The evacuation was followed by another one in another section of New York City, in which police were investigating a suspicious-looking truck.

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The British Petroleum oil spill is leaking more than 200,000 gallons of oil a day (the equivalent of 5,000 barrels) into the Gulf, and experts predict it will hit the coast within hours.

Executives at BP have been unable to determine the exact cause of the explosion, which killed 11 workers on the oil rig the fuel company leases from Transocean Ltd. Although wild speculation has traced the cause to everything from neglect to poorly-made concrete seals, authorities said they will take into account all possibilities and have not ruled out criminal activity.

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One of the worst things to come out of Arizona's new illegal immigration law is that pundits are labeling it "anti-immigration".

Talk about biased. Not only is the term inflammatory, it's also inaccurate.

Arizona's new law doesn't have a thing to do with legal immigration, or as I like to call it, immigration. What it has everything to deal with, however, is illegal immigration, or what I like to call, criminal activity.

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